Love it. Social perspective on something most people associate with some forest, animals or weather. Climate affects humans first and foremost- yes animals have less protection but adverse results lead indirectly to human hardship. Anyways, thanks for a sweet comic maybe I’ll print it out and put it up.

Now now, Winston, parts of it are funny. I love the dig at the National Post. One finds the same thing, of course, in various national/ethnic community papers all the time: “2 of the passengers on [airline/flight number] that crashed on [date] were [member of paper’s target audience].”

I just moved in to a new apartment with my gf and spend all sunday unpacking and moving things around – but nevertheless I can’t say that this comic has nothing to do with me.
Anyone has something they haven’t unpacked, in one sence or another.

What I love about your comics is the details. Even if there’s not a lot of words to read there’s still lots of things to pick out and mull over. It sort of reminds me of when I used to read Mad and would sit for a long time picking out all the craziness in Tom Bunk’s artwork.

Dear Winston, enough with the self deprecating. I really enjoyed the comic.

I liked the little pizza cutter in the pizza box, they were perfectly able to unpack the ‘peer pressure’ but the happiness was crushed by the tv, the honesty was completely taped in and shoved inna corner, the image on the tv, you name it. I also really like the girl’s outfit.

And that situation really rings true..hehe…we’ve been here or almost 3 months and only this weekend did we make a significant dent in our unpacking. As in, my office was FULL of stuff: 2 tables, 7 chairs, mattress, boxes of shite, the living room was full too. We’d eat pizza and watch HBO amidst the messs. I was even getting used to it, how sick is that? My gf is the one with the ants in her pants (i swear, I’m clean) so she made us do a yard sale.
So yes: I DID think this comic was funny and I did read it last night and thought it was last week’s so I was all excited this morning for a new one perhaps.

Naturally thinks of Pandora. I never quite understood how if she let all the evils out of the jar, this was bad because the evils could go ummm evilling everywhere, but hope stayed in the jar and this was somehow good because it was…’saved’ I guess by still being in the jar. I don’t know.

A bit overly cynic perhaps but it is definitely an allegory that resonates with you.

Love the little details of how things are placed. I also recognize the type of headlines in the National Post paper from my own country. Apparently it’s pretty universal. Logical in one way I suppose but sad too.

Oh, and at least to me this strip isn’t a critique on capitalism, more an observation about people in, particularly, western developed countries.
Just blaming or lauding capitalism, or indeed, any other system as the cause of everything wrong/right with the world is simplifying things to the point of distortion.
i.e. it’s inaccurate.😉

greaty great great man!! actually kind of ties in with todays SMBC!
we just gotta keep whining about how shitty everything is! its our morale duty! ..uhm theres some quote that expresses that sentiment nicely…
though its not all bad! if you take the global picture from the past say 1000 years things have improved drasticly! oh exept for global warming were screwed there!

also, subnormality isnt “funny” anymore. I still look forward to it with great anticipation! Its become an intelligent webcomic that expresses various socio/philiosophical points elegantly and with humour..
still, dunno why but “if hollywood was a person” had me (unsuccessfully) trying to supress hysterical laughter in my soul destroying office for a whole day!
thats not criticism, just thinkin’ out loud (on my keyboard) anyway keep up the awesome work!

nice one. i have to admit though, the thing that actually had me laughing about this was the subnormality logo next to the title of the comic in my firefox tab-browser, as it describes perfectly how i feel a lot of the time.😦 Thanks, capitalism!

happydj: “Yah, I’d much rather have the government wiping my butt and blowing my nose for me… telling me what I can or can’t do. DON’T BLAME BAD TIME MANAGEMENT ON CAPITALISM.”
you say that as if capitalism and governments were two contradictory forces working against each other, and as if we had to choose one or the other. D:

Brilliant! I loved the upside-down environment box, the label “non-suicidal common sense fuckin’ eating”, the lighbulb factory, the initiative circle of doom. What does the box beneath the woman’s chair say?

There are people who do this stuff, who go above and beyond the normal stupid human shit. They’re the people who go down in history, usually. We all act like it’s some integral gift, like it’s something impossible for a “normal person” to achieve… but really, it’s just a decision. Isn’t it?

Reading the boxes, then seeing the TV crushing what dreams could be, and I laugh simply because that’s where I am, too. It takes a serious set of cojones to make that kind of point. (I’m just waiting for the trolls to start in.)

Meghana K: Well said. Taken to extremes, it’s like Lewis Black says: a terrorist is a person who has lost their sense of humor. Scale it down and an asshole is a person who can laugh at everyone except themselves.

nonnymus: I know what you mean, and I agree.

Tim: Ah, the mysteries of life…

Roadtoad: No trolls this week so far. I’d say they were on summer vacation, but a vacation from what exactly?

erik: I know what you’re getting at, though i think you really mean “western society” as opposed to, er, “white people.” I assume you’re pointing out that it’s about people in a certain socioeconomic class, anyway, and yeah, it is about life in a particular kind of society, which is not coincidentally the one that many/most people reading the comic are likely to be a part of, myself included.

also:

Thanks in general to everyone for the comments! I really appreciate everyone who takes the time to say something here, positive or otherwise.

Mr Rowntree, if you ever do wallpapers, would it be possible to have one with many people? A 16:9 Subnormality “cast” or “all-star” lineup with your most recurring characters? Knowing you, it would look like a twisted, nightmarish, crowded picture of Where’s Waldo, except with more Sphinx. Hiding Nickelback or Stephen Harper in there, the pink-haired waitress, the two nazis, the Hell girls, etc.

I’d pay good money for a big Subnormality widescreen desktop with many characters. I’m sure others would too.

@Writer: I’ll second your motion for a Subnormality roll-call as wallpaper. In whichever mood you woke your computer, there’d be a little face mirror-grinning back: great idea!

And, um, not to jinx this entire experience, but Winston I’d just like to say that your dips into this forum are a verisimilitude of having my favourite band on speakerphone when I’m most wishing I could play beautiful guitar.

Why indeed? Why? Why? WHY? WHYYYY?!?!?!
Some subjects perfectly warrant the ol’ “wall-o’-text”, but the approach becomes just plain hamfisted when you’re trying to apply it to what started out as a single, concise metaphor. When it’s diluted down to such a minimalistic setup, the overwrought dialogue is like a livid bruise on the setup. The situation just feels so “overtold” it comes across like self-parody. Not that it’s a bad concept or that you’re a bad writer, but the difference between a lecture and sage advice is in length alone.

I have moved 37 times in 33 years; therefore I consider myself an expert on the art of moving. I have reach such a point of perfection in the craft, that I can tell cardboard boxes apart by quality levels.

But the real awe inducer about my technique, is the developed ability to arrange all my belongings the very same night after the moving. Yes, people come the morning after to see if they can help me unpack, and find out everything is on its place already.

I can’t say how much I enjoy their looks of fearful respect, by the way.